Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other - Chapter 38

I was in a coma for two days, and when I woke up, I still couldn’t see Song Langsheng.

The men and horses sent from the mansion chased along the small road of Jingwai Avenue for several days, but they all returned to no avail.

He just disappeared out of thin air, without a word.

At the beginning, I still had some fluke. After Soramo, I became more and more discouraged. When the prince came, I urged him to return to the palace to manage government affairs without a preface. He wanted to be more concerned, so I turned over and was left alone. Tears are buried in cotton wool.

Everyone just thinks that I can’t see the horses and they are so worried and sick. Zhou Wenyu, the only one who knows the details, sees me in a trance.

News of the continued dying breath spread wildly, and the court was shocked by it. Although it was unclear whether it was shock or excitement, the officials who came to visit the princess’s mansion have since been in an endless stream.

Uncle Liu stopped them all at the door.

The courtiers were more suspicious-what kind of illness did the Princess Jianguo have that made the emperor helpless? Where did the Dali Temple Qing Song Xuanma go and haven’t shown up? The emperor is still asleep. If things go on like this, can the prince alone provoke the burden of the country?

Certain scents of eagerness and anxiety diffused from the temple into the hall, and for a while, rumors spread, and people were panicked.

Of course, these are what A Zuo A You said to me.

Since that night, I’ve been lying in bed like a living dead day and night, and I’m going to die soon, so how can I care about what is going on or not?

I just want to die immediately, so that my ears don’t have to hear these annoying things.

But my shadow guard, Zuo, is chattering. He sees me lying on the couch muffled, and he talks about the situation outside the mansion in his spare time. No size, lifelike.

Just when he interrupted my sadness and missed my husband-in-law for the 78th time, he managed to force me to speak after all.

“Let you monitor the picking honey, do you take this princess’s words to your ears?”

Hanging upside down outside the window, Zuo poked his head in a daze, “Father, princess…you finally won’t be depressed like this anymore…”

I closed my eyes and said, “I count three times…”

Zuo disappeared very obediently.

I rolled over and lay on the bed, rolled up my cuffs and glanced at the bruise veins, and scratched my head feebly.

Ah You walked out from behind the shadow of the side door, looked at my expression carefully, opened his mouth, and didn’t say a word for a long time.

I slowly glanced at her with Yu Guang and asked, “A Zuo didn’t hear what Zhou Wenyu said to me that night, did you hear all of them?”

Ah’s right eye moved slightly, as if about to wring out the water, I gave her a sideways glance, “You always look at me with a weeping face these past two days. Don’t think I can’t see it.”

Ah You was stunned, “Princess, haven’t you all these few days…”

I sighed for a while, slowly got out of bed, walked to the window sill, and asked, “Ah, how long have you been in the Mingjian Division?”

Ah You never thought I would ask about this suddenly, but he was taken aback, and replied neatly: “The subordinate entered the division at the age of seven. It has been 13 years now.”

“Thirteen years…” I slowly said, “A woman’s best years are exhausted here. Have you ever regretted it?”

Ah You raised his eyes and looked at me: “A You has been an orphan since he was a child. If he hadn’t been taken in by Ming Jiansi, he would have survived to this day? Since Ah You chose this road, how can you regret it?”

I smiled slightly and saw that the pink flowers outside the courtyard were bright and red, especially the strong stamens, “If you are poisoned, you will die soon. If you see me in trouble, will you still protect me?”

Ah You resolutely said, “As long as Ah You still has a breath, he will try his best to protect Your Highness.”

The breeze blew across the corner of my skirt, and I looked at her, “So ah, right, how can I fail to do what you can do? Waiting for death for fear of death is the number one stupid thing in the world.”

There was a confused expression on her face, and she seemed to understand what I meant, “Could it be… Your Majesty’s malaise in the past few days is a pretense?”

I shook my head, “That’s not always true.”

That night was wet with tears, I was thinking about falling into a dream, thinking in my dream, waking up and thinking about it, but I couldn’t figure out why the clusters outside the house were still blooming, but I was about to die.

It was so easy to remember that Song Langsheng was the elder brother, and the reunion was within easy reach…

After Piansheng’s picking honey appeared, everything began to become erratic.

Although she seems to be recuperating in the mansion, she hasn’t moved her hands or feet, but if she really doesn’t do anything, why am I doing this?

Stand still… Is it just that it doesn’t seem to move?

The emperor father once said that if you can’t analyze where the enemy started, then just imagine how things would evolve without the existence of the enemy.

That day, I was about to tell Song Langsheng that I was a little sister… If I talked about it, many suspicions would also disappear. After that, how can it be difficult for many to tell?

The sudden appearance of picking honey made me afraid that Song Langsheng didn’t trust me, so I wanted to find out the book. But because I found the letter from the emperor father beside the book, I dispelled my confession.

I am afraid that Song Langsheng will misunderstand and take all the secrets alone, and only wait for the investigation to be clear before considering the long-term plan.

But Xiao Qitang, Xiao Qitang, why did you forget that the bright yellow envelope is so eye-catching.

I clenched the roots, and suddenly felt cold and sweaty.

The person behind the conspiracy, the man behind the honey collection, knows everything about me, including my ways of doing things.

In the past few days, the princess was seriously ill and the city was full of storms, and Song Langsheng would not be so indifferent if he knew one or two things. He did not come back to find me, either he could not come, or he was in danger of not knowing the outside world.

Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but turn back and asked Ah You: “Today is the twenty-seventh of the twelfth lunar month?”

Ah right nodded.

“In these days, has Wu Pingting come to see me?”

Ah You nodded again, “Guan Shi saw that the princess was ill and didn’t report it.”

I hugged my knees and walked around in the room for a half circle, and said in deep thought: “I will let Uncle Liu send someone to invite her to the princess’s mansion. Before that… Right, you can confirm one thing for me first.”

The blue sky is like washing, the bamboo curtain of the lake pavilion is half-rolled, and the stove burns charcoal to incense.

Wu Pingting was sitting at the stone table, a figure in a peach shirt, like Huajiao, and I took the tea cover leisurely, “This is Taihu Lake Biluochun, Miss Wu doesn’t have to be formal.”

She lifted her sleeves and drank, and when she put down her teacup, she said, “I thought that the princess was suffering from a strange illness recently in Beijing.

I didn’t answer her right away, “Do you still remember what day is today?”

A trace of hatred flashed in Wu Pingting’s eyes when she heard the words, “The girl will never forget it to death.”

Seven years ago, on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the murder of the **** shocked the imperial city. It was the day when Wu Pingting lost her closest relative.

I sighed, “Invite you to come into the mansion and have a long conversation with you in the eyes of everyone, not for anything else, just to draw out your enemies.”

Wu Pingting was bewildered, “Isn’t the princess saying that Fengli is sinister and cunning, and ordinary lure enemies can hardly make him trick?”

I drank a sip of tea to moisturize my throat, and said, “We underestimated him… Anyway, don’t talk about seducing the enemy, he will see everything we do…”

Wu Pingting looked around vigilantly when she heard the words, “This—”

“Since what Fengli wants to know most is Jun Jinzhi’s secret, it’s better to use it as bait.”

Wu Pingting was shocked, “What does the princess say?”

“If you go to the secret place that your father told you before his death, Feng Li will appear, and the people in this palace will help you and arrest him.”

Wu Pingting stood up suddenly, “My father would rather die than reveal the secret, how can I easily tell others?”

I lifted my cheek and asked, “Your father didn’t say it, because he knew it would be dead if he didn’t say it, or he could still keep you… Besides, this secret was originally that Jun Jinzhi wanted to tell his son, for so many years. Come, do you know whether the son of Junjin is alive or dead, where is the person?”

I will never tell you that he is the current cohort. Anyway, Song Langsheng has married me and enters the door. Even if I know the secret, it is not considered to be out of the hands of outsiders.

Wu Pingting thought for a while, and looked at me suspiciously: “I don’t know if your Royal Highness has other intentions, like Fengli, who is deliberate and deliberate to tell me this secret place?”

I sighed helplessly, “Why Miss Wu would rather keep a stranger’s secret rather than revenge her father and brother?”

Seeing that she gritted her teeth without answering, I didn’t simply answer the dumb, “You don’t want to say it, it’s okay… This palace is just a reminder that you may not be able to wait for the people in the world who can resist the wind. Except this palace. The second person…If you want to go to the meeting alone, that is what Fengli wanted and chilled your father’s heart.”

Her body became unnoticeably stiff, and she said: “He can see everything in his eyes, even if he lays an ambush, how can he get the bait?”

I smiled suddenly, “He will.”

“Why see?”

“He has been able to watch you secretly for seven years, which shows how important this secret place is to him. Now, when you finally have something to do, my palace has to sit back and reap the benefits. How can you stop easily?” I said: “Don’t want Speaking of ambush, he will try his best to break through even if the sky is net.”

Wu Pingting nodded and made a fist, her expression unpredictable, as if she was struggling and wanted to compromise. I was boringly holding the white porcelain tea bowl and playing with it, and only listened to her saying: “Mindaughter has one condition…”

I stopped the movement of my hand and raised my eyes to look at her. She didn’t avoid my eyes, “If Your Highness can go to the secret place with the people’s daughter and fight against the wind, I will tell your Highness where the secret place is.”

I rubbed my eyebrows in a melancholy manner.

Isn’t it because I’m afraid that I will be raked when I cross the river and demolish the bridge?

If you want to hold me as a hostage, just tell me… Just how can I share the pineapple with my weak kidney?

I smiled and said, “Thank you for your trust, and happy cooperation.”

The sky in the west has been dyed with Xia Hong, and Wu Pingting’s shadow appeared as soon as she left Ah You: “Return to the princess, everything is as the princess expected, what should I do next?”

I said: “Wu Pingting has already said that the secret place is above Qinglinluan.”

Ah You was stunned, “Qinglin Mountain? Isn’t that the continuous hill of ten thousand graves on the edge of Lingshan?”

I nodded and said, “I have promised Wu Pingting to go with her, just tonight.”

Ah You was shocked, “This… absolutely must not be, how can you commit dangerous situations with the golden body of your Royal Highness?”

I sighed, “Ms. Kewu said that she would be scared if she was not accompanied by my palace. She might not remember that the secret place was in that grave.”

“His Royal Highness, that Wu Pingting is absolutely untrustworthy!”

I smiled, “You’ve been with me for so long, don’t you know that this palace is like a god?”

“No matter what she said is true, according to the princess’s body now…”

“My palace has its own considerations.” I intercepted her. “You go to Master Tao as soon as possible, and order the 38 Shadow Guards of Mingjian Division to complete this operation together.”

Ah You seemed unwilling to take the order, and whispered: “If you want the thirty-eight shadow guards to pour out, I’m afraid Master Tao may not be…”

I took out Ming Jiansi’s token from my cuff and handed it to her, “You take this and tell him that this is the last time this palace has issued an order as the master of Ming Jiansi.”

Ah You lowered his head, shaking his shoulders and asked me: “Why choose Ming Jiansi’s Shadow Guard to protect His Royal Highness… Your Royal Highness can mobilize Jing Zhaobing horses to surround Qinglin Mountain, so that the thief has monstrous skills. , It’s hard to hurt your Highness…”

I touched my nose and said, “Do you know who the thief is?”

Ah You was stunned, did not understand the situation, “You don’t know…”

I said: “I don’t know who the enemy is, anyone can be an enemy.”

Yes, since I hold the power of commanding the troops, I can tell the prince brother Jean Du to command the envoy, and this trip will be unharmed.

But the pineapple that was able to enter and leave the Criminal Ministry freely, dispatched an army to hunt down one of the pedestrians, obviously had a place in the DPRK, and its strength should not be underestimated.

If I rashly adjust the army to ambush, reveal the secret place in advance, and let the pineapple go first, then my strategy will also be difficult to implement.

This, I think Pineapple should have been expected, so no matter how I deployed, he was sure that I would not dare to move the crowd, naturally let go of my hands and feet, and attack me frontally.

And what I’m waiting for is this head-on showdown.

Ah You asked again: “Then why must be in a hurry tonight… If you want to lie in ambush, let your subordinates first go to investigate the topography of Ten Thousand Tombs, and it will be more secure…”

This time, I did not answer Ah You’s words.

Only a smile came out, “A shadow guard has asked so much that it is already overtaken, Ah right, let’s take the order.”

After returning to the dormitory, I invited Uncle Liu to ask him to order the dining room to get some food. In the past few days, he saw that I couldn’t eat, so he should have been frightened. Therefore, before I finished my words, he kept crying and said: “Old Nuding Not humiliating the mission…” Then he stomped and disappeared.

So when I moved to the side hall and saw the delicious dishes on the three large tables, I suddenly had a foreboding whether I would die when I saw the pineapples.

Fortunately, I still have a bit of saneness. I only grilled half a bowl of rice, half a drunk chicken, half a roast duck and two fresh breeze salamanders and then closed the mouth in time.

Then my stomach was so bloated that I couldn’t even drink the medicine that the genius doctor Zhou gave me, so I secretly took it back to the room to water the flowers.

At present, the enemy cannot be tempted by food.

I think that when Xu Fang just became Nie Ran, I was on a dead end because I ate out of Yinliang. How could I repeat the same mistake again.

Thinking of this, my writing hand trembled. Although I have a wealth of experience and practical experience in the face of death, I never knew that the suicide note was so difficult to write, and I couldn’t even explain it in half an hour. The words to ask the prince’s brother were finally scribbled to the end with “Sister’s voice and smile will often go around the beam for three days, don’t think, don’t be afraid.”

As I knew today, when I was learning to write articles with Wei Qingheng, I should ask more about the format of a will, and I wouldn’t even know where to write a letter to my husband.

I don’t know if I should tell the whole story. If I let go like this without saying anything, it’s hard to imagine whether he will hate him for life; but if I told him that I was on this road to get rid of Fengli, he Will you guess my true intentions?

Sitting in front of the book table, I felt the boundless sense of the impermanence of the world, and I had no way of writing for a long time.

At the end of the Hai, Ah You returned as scheduled.

She said that the thirty-eight shadow guards are ready to go. Ten of them surveyed the terrain in advance. In addition to her and Zuo, at least thirty people will hide in different places to protect me, no matter what emergencies happen. I am my responsibility.

As soon as she finished talking, Zuo jumped in from the window and said, “The subordinates have obeyed the princess’s instructions and tied the honey-collecting five flowers to the dungeon in the mansion.”

I glanced at him and said deeply, “That’s good. Tonight, the entire Ming Kam Division’s shadow guards will come to protect me, so you must not be too nervous.”

Turning my back to them, I pushed open the wooden windows of this mansion.

At night, the lights of the capital gradually faded, and there is no end to the ups and downs through the deep night.

It is rare that the night sky is clear and the stars are scattered on the bluestone long road, adding a bit of tranquility and elegance.

Then I looked forward and saw a long row of brightly lit lanterns hanging in the air. Those lanterns, those lanterns Song Langsheng said he looked at when I was missing, are inexplicably suffocated at this moment.

When looking back, the glowing red light fell into the eyes, and the flashing memory gradually became clear——

In the early morning two years ago, I woke up early, and the invigorating supervision and ritual department hung thousands of lanterns on designated streets and alleys in the capital.

That day, it was Song Langsheng’s birthday.

I drew pictures for him, set up a spectacular stage for him at Yulong Mountain Villa, and decorated the whole of Kyoto for him.

But I still remember that I was not in a happy mood at that time.

Not long ago, he seemed to have some conflicts with his father, he suddenly alienated me, and even moved away from the princess mansion to live in Dali Temple for half a month without returning. No matter how sad I was, he still looked at me like a cloud, and his indifference was even worse than when he first married.

I can’t figure out his reason for neglecting me.

Since the day when we escaped from the fire in Chenjiacun, our knots have been resolved. I wish we could stay together at all times. How could the love and affection of that period disappear overnight?

It’s a pity that at that time, I was all focused on investigating Xia Yanghou and Qinggu, and when I recovered and found something wrong, I had no way of knowing the root of the problem.

I can’t sleep all night, but I don’t know what to do.

It wasn’t until I opened the book of Tang’s heart and saw the palm-sized paper maple that I suddenly recalled that when I was thirteen years old on the Lingshan mountain, I saw the red maple gradually withering yellow, and for a while, I blurted out sadly: “Flowers do not become red. No one is good for a thousand days.”

It is rare that the big brother who was with me at the time did not venomously refute that maple leaves are not flowers.

Just before returning to the palace, he held me, spread my palm, and put a piece of vivid paper maple on it.

He said: “There is always a heart that never retreats, just like flowers, so are people.”

Such love words are hard to resist. I couldn’t restrain the emotion in my heart for a long time, and finally said, “This is the first gift you gave me.”

He hummed, “Take it as a bride price.”

I raised my head in surprise, and if he turned around casually, the roots of his ears were red.

The setting sun stretched his back, I stared for a long time, and said softly: “One day, I will return to you the largest and most shining red maple in Beijing.”

That was a promise made when he was young, Feng is still that maple, and the person is still that person, but after hundreds of thousands of times the love can no longer return to the original purity.

I am determined to give him the gift that has been many years late as his birthday gift.

That day, I asked his colleagues at Dali Temple to hand him the letter of invitation.

I want to let him see the most beautiful maple in the world where I first met, and tell me the love I have hidden in my heart for many years.

I waited and waited on Lingshan Mountain until the sunset, and finally saw the familiar red shadow on the winding mountain road not far away.

He didn’t even have time to take off his official robes in the future, so he came here to accept the appointment, which shows that he still has me in his heart.

I ignited the fireworks in my hand, and when the colorful flames bloomed in the night sky, the lanterns in the mountain under the capital were lit up.

The fiery red cage lights meandered into lines, pouring out like waterfalls. Looking from this place, they just painted a huge maple. In an instant, the sky and the earth were crimson.

At that moment, I somehow, like a moment when I returned to my youth, stroking my banging heart, turned around at a loss, and turned my back to him.

Wait until the footsteps approach, and stop at your fingertips.

I looked at the brilliance of lanterns under the night, “I know you will come.”

He did not speak. I thought he might be annoyed that I somehow invited him here, so he said, “Today is the birthday of the consort. I want to come to this moment in Shanshizhuang, waiting for my birthday. I can’t do some things in front of so many people. Say, that’s why…” I paused and looked up, “I just want to be here alone with you for a while.”

He still didn’t say anything, and I said softly: “I haven’t seen you for a few days. I don’t even know how to tell you. From now on… will you and I be strangers?… I’m really unwilling. , I have liked you for so long, longer than you think.”

“Do you know where was the place where you and I first met?” I looked up, “It’s here…”

The people behind me moved slightly, and I tugged at the corners of my clothes, and said in a blast: “…I will not mention these pasts. Although I occasionally expect you to think of me, after all, after years, I am afraid that even if you listen, I may not be willing to stay for me. I am afraid that you never cared about it. Then the past that I cherish the most will be gone…”

“Originally… after you and I were separated, I met another person, and I was almost shaken…”

“But when you and I met again in Chenjiacun, you risked your life to save me. You don’t even remember that I was the girl back then, but you could still say those things to me…” I brushed it away with my fingertips. Tears, “At that moment, I really thought that as long as I could survive, even if my father opposed it, even if it was criticized by the whole world, even if I abandon the identity of the princess, I would not hesitate…”

I stopped and took a deep breath, “…I once said that one day, I will return to you the largest and brightest red maple in Beijing…”

“Don’t you remember who I am when you look at this scene at this moment?”

With that vocal questioning, no matter how slow he is, it is not difficult to guess that I am a little sister, right?

If at that time, the person who heard this sentence behind me would really be Song Langsheng.

However, when I turned around, I saw another person.

Xu Fang.

It was the Xu Fang who hadn’t remembered that he was Xiayang Hou Shizi.

I opened my mouth dumbfounded: “You are Xu, Xu Fang? How, how could it be you?”

He wears a simple and elegant purple robe, which is no longer what he looked like in Chenjiacun. At this moment, he stared at me in a daze, but didn’t want me. I didn’t know it. I just saw Song Langsheng in official robes. Why did he change his head one by one?

I was anxious, and I was about to go around him to find someone, but I heard Xu Fang say indifferently: “He’s gone.”

I stopped.

Xu Fang turned his eyes slowly, “While you were talking, he was listening by the tree behind us, but he left when he heard half of it.”

I looked at Xu Fang incredulously.

If Guo Song Langsheng really leaves before listening, it can only mean that he thought I was speaking to another person.

I trembled and asked, “Why don’t you interrupt me if you know that I am not talking to you?”

Under the shining moonlight, Xu Fang Qingjun’s face was cold.

Is this person the same Xu Fang who rescued me in Chenjiacun?

I was in a daze, “Why did you come to the capital, why are you here…you are, did you deliberately misunderstand the consort?”

He still didn’t answer me. Even though I had doubts in my heart, when I thought that Song Langsheng might have misunderstood me and left with anger, he didn’t bother to ask more, and just went straight away, wanting to catch up with the husband.

But Xu Fang held me in his hand. I think I probably knew the reason for doing this, and felt soft. “Xu Fang, I thought you would support me in pursuing what I want.”

His dark eyes gleamed, “You said that it is good to a person, not letting her mind indulge her thoughts.”

I was stunned: “So letting the people you originally love to be separated due to misunderstanding is your way to be good to others?”

“But he, he is not sincere to you!”

I was annoyed: “You are just an outsider with no memory. Why do you say that?”

“He actually—” Xu Fang stopped talking, “Anyway, he can’t, you can’t be with him… Now, you must stay by my side now, and you can’t chase him, otherwise, otherwise…”

I saw that his preface was not followed by the words and his thoughts were very confused, “Although I don’t know what your intentions are, you saved me after all, I don’t blame you, let’s…don’t pass it.”

“Just now!” Xu Fang raised his voice, “You said you met someone who almost shook you. Was it… me?”

For a moment, I looked straight at him.

These words were meant to make the horse jealous, but Xu Fang listened to it unexpectedly.

Now I don’t know where to start.

With a lonely moon in the dark sky, he lowered his eyes and asked, “That day, if I had rescued you one step earlier, would you be shaken for me?”

For some reason, his look fell in his eyes, and his heart was heavy as if he had swallowed gold.

Admittedly, he seemed to have asked me more than once when he was in the village.

Unfortunately, the answer has never changed.

“This is the last answer.” I struggled away from Xu Fang’s hand: “There is no if in this world.”

Xu Fang’s voice echoed empty in the roaring night wind, “Really?”

My memory is blurred again, but when I think about it more, my headache will get worse. I held the window sill with both hands, closed my eyes and tried to catch more of the fragments that happened after the scene——

In the dim light… I seemed to have been imprisoned in a dim room with my hands tied. Someone approached me step by step, pinching my chin and feeding a pill into my mouth… But who is that person? Why can’t I remember that person’s appearance anyway?

What’s next? Alone… Running away like a life in the mountain road, a group of masked killers chased me into the extreme point of the cliff. I stepped back and jumped–

The feeling of weightlessness at high altitude is the last memory.

Then there is the overwhelming gloom, I can’t think of more anyway.

The dull pain of the heart spread all over my limbs, and my foot was soft, and I sat paralyzed on the ground for a while, like falling into an abyss.

A left-eyed hand quickly lifted me up: “Where is your highness? Is there any discomfort? The subordinates will immediately tell Doctor Zhou to come…”

I raised my hand to stop, “No need…”

“Your Highness!” Ah You was obviously anxious, “It’s better to cancel the trip tonight…”

My heart was sad, but I smiled, “They have been so lonely and played such a good game, how can this palace not stay with them to the end.”

Ah You is unclear, so, “They…they?”

There is something I always feel wrong, but I still can’t remember what’s wrong.

I was lost on the birthday of the baby horse two years ago. The birthday of the baby horse was in the fall season of January. At that time, someone saw me falling from the cliff above Lingshan, but the corpse under the cliff was not me.

After that, I lost my memory and lost my memory once a day. My first impression was that I was picked up by Xu Fang in Chenjiacun as a gentle breeze.

That was the peak season of peach blossoms in March, which lasted two months.

Chenjiacun’s journey from the capital would take two months if he hurriedly overtakes the nearest waterway.

But if according to previous expectations, I lost my memory and wandered to Chenjiacun, it must have taken far more than two months.

So, only the last possibility remains.

After I lost my memory, someone took me out of the capital day and night, and kept my name in Chenjiacun.

And this person, only him.

Xu Fang, who appeared rashly on Lingshan that night.